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With the new challenge in the 21st century, education is facing more and more challenges. In realizing the need to fulfill up to this challenges and standard, the government should upgrade and provide each lab in schools with highly and sophisticated advanced technology.

From Visual Perspective:

• Increase the number of computers in lab
• Equipped the lab with enough smartboard, powerpoint projector, tablet, widescreen TV, DVD Player and any sorts of relevant multimedia that aid teaching and learning.
• New technology must be introduced from time to time such as 3D or 4D hologram to show structures of certain shapes, organs or features.

From Audio Perspective:

• Provide the lab with audio speakers as to help teachers with soft and incoherent voice to produce a good projection, louder and clearer voice in order to deliver the lesson well. This can be used to assist the students with hearing impairment or those who sit further from the teacher at the front that are not able to hear/listen to the teacher well.

From Lab Layout Perspective

• Lab must be divided into two sections: one section is where the students do their experiments and the other section fro them to engage in learning, writing report etc with individual computer.
• Each teacher must have their own lab where where only that particular teacher can use the lab with her/his students. This is to prevent conflicts in term of the usage of the lab.

From the Safety Precaution Perspective:

• Equip the lab with a highly alarm sensor, chemical spill detector, and automatic fire extinguisher, smoke detector and etc.
• Equip the lab with fume cupboard and proper chemicals disposer.

From the Internet Connection in Lab:

• Highly efficient internet server as to allow the students and teachers to have more interactive learning through the internet under the teacher’s supervision.
• Provide more computers and enough for individual student so that to increase and improve students’ computer literacy.

 

 

 

The increased use of ICT has led to the introduction of new pedagogical approaches, including Resource Based Learning (RBL) where varied learning needs are supported by a wide range of ICT assets. Science subjects in particular are extremely amenable to the advantages offered by RBL and the associated ICT assets. The implementation of technology-supported collaborative inquiry allows teachers to design the educational setting as an integrated whole that provides students with relevant technological tools, directs them to collaborate effectively, and promotes epistemologically high-level and creative ways of working with knowledge.

The use of ICT in school helps to promote the use of Information technology among students in the classroom. Not everybody has the access to use ICT or can afford to have one especially the low income family. The only access that they can have is through the school. In school, especially with the rise of SPN21, the students must be able to work cooperatively in groups, on projects that cross disciplines, constructing knowledge using a variety of both electronic and print research and reference materials, just as problems are solved in real-world and work situations.

It is more on the holistic approach and hence education must provide information, skills, and experiences that are relevant to the world in which students will live and work. This is where literacy in ICT is vital for both teachers and students in the learning process especially in science subject.

In learning science, the use of ICT can, at least, bring about the clarity on whatever concepts that are abstract to the students. Anything that are abstracts like atoms, structure of proteins and another molecules,  any sorts of natural  processes and many others can be shown through animations, simulations or videos so that students get a better grab on the concept and ideas.

But then I still have some doubts on its effectiveness since it is still a topic of dispute on whether the use of ICT can improve in both teaching and learning in term of Brunei context. Would  accelerated learning can be achieved through this? Can it provide a better learning outcomes for the learners in Bruneian schools?

 

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